The Hidden Brook
Gustave Courbet
ca. 1873–77
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
23 3/8 x 29 3/4 in. (59.4 x 75.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922
Accession Number
22.16.13
Tags
RiversLandscapes
About the Artist
Gustave Courbet · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who revolutionized 19th-century art as the founding figure of the Realism movement. Born in Ornans, a small town in the Doubs region of France, Courbet came from a prosperous farming family with anti-monarchical roots—his maternal grandfather had participated in the French Revolution. This background shaped his lifelong commitment to dep...